1. brood - Noun
2. brood - Adjective
3. brood - Verb
The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
To cherish with care.
To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. Isaac Asimov
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. Mary Renault
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Washington Irving
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. John Keats
The eggs of the brood need to be an odd number. Sicilian Proverb
Bastard brood are aye proud. Scottish Proverb